More than three weeks into the transition, and Vice-President elect Joe Biden generates less buzz than the non-existent first puppy.

I remember some of us were saying from the VP seeking days, Obama needs a self-effacing VP, someone who wouldn’t in any way steal his limelight. Whomever holds the leash, they would have to be deep behind the curtains as Obama’s ego is bigger, more fragile than W.

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There is good news in this as well:

The vice presidential office’s role, which expanded tremendously during the Bush administration. Dick Cheney is viewed by many as the most powerful vice president in American history and as a chief architect of the war in Iraq.

The office’s role will likely shrink back to something closer to its usual size after Obama takes office.

Now, if I only would get a whiff about the POTUS office also going bask to the pre-“unitary executive ” role, I might see some change here.

So far, I only see that Jr.jr has an even bigger ego than Jr.

Of course, there’s another possibility: Joe Mark-my-words Biden could be already in his…undisclosed location

Amid the cold gusts of winter, Republicans will soon be ushered out of power after controlling Congress, the White House, or both for 14 years. Here’s a further chilling thought: Since 1896, with only one exception, when a party has taken over the White House, it has held it for at least eight years. The exception is the Jimmy Carter Democrats, retired after a single term in 1981. And it would be churlish to hope that Barack Obama will recapitulate the ineptitude and foolishness of the Nobel laureate from Plains.

Has anyone noticed how flawless the kabuki dance of the so call transfer of power between 2 parties is going?

Michelleloves Laura, W admires B0…No AF1 gate, office supply gate – or even responsibility for torture and war crimes? Nobody, not even the former “Impeach Bush”crowd is calling for accountability of Bushco anymore.

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They are all busy with the perpetual enemy: the Clintons.

Sometimes in 2001 Bill Clinton was asked: “why do they hate you so much”?

“Because I won” he replied. “They thought themselves entitled to power and I took it away from them”

At the time I thought that ‘they” were the Republicans. Now that I see Cheney’s cousin feted by the same press that savaged Clinton, Gore and Kerry I realized that it’s not a matter of parties but one of class.

W managed to shift responsibility to Clinton for every thing he botched for years. Hos recession was even moved from March 2001 to March 2000 by the media and 9.11 was also Clinton’s responsibility. The unrest in the ME was Clinton’s fault – he raised expectations by trying to bring peace.

And I expect Hillary will get a lot of heat for everything going wrong in the world.

During his “bitter” remarks Obama identified W and Clinton as equal causes of the unhappiness of the people in PA.

But throughout the campaign, W’s name came out surprisingly little.

“Hillary is the anti-bush, Obama is the a-Bush”

said Bill Schneider giving the GOP the secret signal of how to inervene in the primaries at the time.

Hardly anyone is anti-Bush these days. I bought a large collection of anti-Bush buttons at a garage sale recently – “it was time to clear the deck”.

So, W gets off scotch free. And B0bots return to what they do best, joining the other side:

This reminds me of the incident on 9.11 with W in NYC: a little girl shows him the photograph of her father. They were about to post it on the missing person board as W was visiting. In a sudden act of “ME” inspiration, W takes the photo, scrawls his signature on it telling the girl that when they find her father she can tell him she met W. (They loved this so much they included in the W – hero of 9.11 movie)

BARBARA WALTERS: You know, I don’t have to stress the fact that this is such a hard time for this country. Do you have a Thanksgiving message that you would like to give to the people?

“The people”? Wouldn’t “Americans” or perhaps “your fellow Americans” be customary? And “give,” instead of “send” or “share”? Maybe I’m being picky here, but have a look and tell me if it doesn’t almost come across as Walters inviting a monarch to bestow something on his huddled peons.

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BARACK OBAMA: I want to remind people that, as tough as times are right now, and they’re a lot tougher for millions of people around the country than they are for Michelle and I that, we have been through tough times before, and the extraordinary blessings of being an American, of having a nation that has a tradition of communities pulling together. A country where somebody like myself, or somebody like Michelle, has a shot, no matter what the circumstances.